Today, Dharma.ai named David Muse as its Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. The appointment will help accelerate Dharma.ai’s growth, as Muse brings a deep background leading and scaling technology companies.

Founded by data scientists, epidemiologists, and front-line care givers in the West Africa Ebola epidemic, Dharma was developed and battle tested to meet the needs of international organizations that required a data platform that could easily gather, understand, and act on information to save lives. Supported by their patented data ingestion, online collaboration, and offline capabilities, Dharma allows users to rapidly design programs to collect data, anywhere, anytime and make informed decisions to maximize impact. In use across the globe, the Dharma software platform allows aid workers, doctors, teachers, and all others on the front lines of impact to easily gather, understand, and respond. With Dharma, money, time, and human lives are saved, every day, throughout the world. Read more

Guggenheim Securities, the investment banking and capital markets division of Guggenheim Partners, announced today that Matthew Brogdon has joined the firm as a Senior Managing Director in the firm’s Houston-based Oil and Gas investment banking group.

Mr. Brogdon brings over two decades of experience advising and managing oil and gas companies and assets. He joins Guggenheim most recently from Citigroup where he was Co-Head of the Energy Acquisitions & Divestitures (A&D) Group. Before Citigroup, Mr. Brogdon served as Chief Operating Officer of a private oil and gas company. Prior to that role, he served in the Corporate Advisory Practice at Evercore Partners, where he focused on M&A and capital raising for energy firms. He began his career in engineering roles with ExxonMobil and Netherland Sewell & Associates. Read more

Equality Asset Management, a next-generation private equity firm, announced that it has formed an advisory board which will be responsible for providing Equality and its companies with strategic guidance, industry insight, and deep functional expertise. C. Kim Goodwin, MBA ’87, joins the board as an accomplished CEO, CIO, portfolio manager, and board director.

C. Kim Goodwin is an accomplished CEO, CIO, portfolio manager, and Board Director. Kim currently serves as CEO and CIO of Avanico Holdings in Puerto Rico, and is currently a Non-Executive Director of PineBridge Investments, and an independent Director of Popular Inc. (BPOP) based in Puerto Rico. Previously Kim served as the Global Head of Equities for Asset Management at Credit Suisse Group, and as CIO of Equities of State Street Research. Previously Kim served for many years on the Board of Akamai Technologies and CheckFree Corporation (acquired by FiServ in 2005), and as a Director of various equity funds within the Allianz Global Investors family of funds. Kim also serves on the Board of Trustees and on the PRINCO endowment board of Princeton University.  Kim holds two Master’s degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, one in Public Affairs, an M.B.A. in Finance from The McCombs School of Business, and an AB cum laude in Politics from Princeton University. Read more

CA Ventures announced the hire of Carlo Matta to support the U.S. firm’s planned $500 million investment in the European housing market. Matta who will head the new London-based European division of CA Ventures, brings over 20 years of experience to the firm, most recently working as managing director at Optimum Asset Management in New York, where he oversaw the sourcing, fundraising, and development of $530 million in real estate developments.

“These strategic hires, both of whom were hand-picked given their extensive experience on the international stage, will accelerate the growth of our European division as we continue to identify development opportunities in vastly underserved markets,” said Tom Scott, CEO of CA Ventures. “With dozens of years of experience between them, Carlo and Olaf can provide us with the hyperlocal insights and relationships needed to build upon CA’s existing $4.5 billion student housing and multifamily residential portfolios across the U.S., Canada, Latin America and Europe.” Read more

Kevin Lenau is a 2018 graduate of the McCombs MBA full time program, and is currently the chief administrative officer for CASA of Travis County. Lenau has started a McCombs team for CASA’s annual Superhero 5k and kids 1K run. If you would like to join or want to read more about it click here.

Myomo, Inc., a wearable medical robotics company, announced that Micah Mitchell is joining the company as chief commercial officer, a newly created executive role. Mitchell has extensive experience growing revenues for companies in the durable medical equipment industry, including companies that provide customized wheelchair and mobility solutions to those with paralysis due to spinal cord injuries, and other neurological conditions.